Don't complain about Phi Brain for North America audiences only. The world is full of fansubs making their job to bring you anime when the rotten world of anime licenses don't bring legal anime to your region. Also, it's not CR fault, they make a great effort to get as many regions as they can.

I'm both surprised and pretty stoked to see this announcement. I never caught up with the first one, but I was hoping it would come around to either Crunchyroll or Crackle, since I have both on my Roku and my Nook. But Crunchyroll is obviously better because, 1, Crackle has ads and 2, 1/3 of the time Crackle fails to work properly.

I was unhappy that Crunchyroll might have missed out on Zetman (though, obviously, sublicensing announcements have just started rolling out today), and then I heard that the anime may not be as good as the manga is supposed to be, so meh. But I wasn't even thinking about Crunchyroll getting Phi Brain 1 and 2 at this point, so I'm pretty stoked.

Surprised that CR is getting both seasons of Phi Brain. I have a feeling this won't be the only sublicense from Sentai(hence the North America only).

In Winter2012, only one Sentai sublicense was restricted to North America.

However, Fall2011 or earlier they all were, and since Phi Brain was a Fall2011 series, it makes sense that would be reflected in the rights to the original and the sequel.

I was surprised that Crunchyroll got Phi Brain at all, but its no surprise that Crunchyroll is getting both seasons ~ with the acquisition of the second series, Sentai has announced that there will be a home video release later this year, so they want to increase its visibility.

I'm still looking to see two or more Sentai Sublicenses either to North and South America, or to North America, Northern Europe, Oceania and South Africa. Or both of those combined. I won't expect Sentai to push another step beyond that until after Crunchyroll has had some results on their TV Tokyo-influenced primary streaming licenses and can, hopefully, afford to juice up the offer they can make for Worldwide Outside Asia and Worldwide to Premium Members Outside Japan.

we are running out of space for the shows I most want to see this season

I don't know why people keep on mentioning Kore Wa Zombie. Crunchyroll has lost the rights to that entire franchise to Funanimation. The first season has been removed from Crunchyroll, so there is no chance it will get the second series/season.